[CPEO-MEF] FUDS: SunRiver at Camp Abbot (OR)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Sunriver homeowners sue U.S. government, others over asbestos

By Karen McCowan
Eugene Register-Guard (OR)
August 6, 2010

Property owners at Central Oregon's popular Sunriver Resort have filed a 
$3.2 million lawsuit against the federal government and other previous 
owners of the military camp that preceded the resort, citing asbestos 
contamination.

In a complaint filed late last month in federal court, the Sunriver 
Owners Association says it discovered the cancer-causing material in a 
6-acre site where demolished Camp Abbot buildings were buried.

The federal government purchased the future resort site in 1942 for use 
as a U.S. Army combat engineer training camp. Camp Abbot consisted of 
nearly 100 buildings, "some or all of which" featured cement asbestos 
board siding, as well as insulation, floor tiles, ceilings and walls 
containing asbestos, Sunriver's suit alleges.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25136743-41/asbestos-sunriver-owners-camp-says.csp

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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